Moft inftantly, and tell in what degree And how it may be borne, whether in a right line, Into an angle blunt, if not acute: All this he will demonftrate. And then, rules Kaf. How? to take it? Fac. Yes, in oblique he'll fhew you, or in circle; But never in diameter. The whole town Study his theorems, and difpute them ordinarily Kaf. But does he teach Fac. Any thing whatever. You cannot think that fubtilty but he reads it. Kaf. No, I'll not come there. You shall pardon me, Fac. For why, fir? Kaf. There's gaming there, and tricks. Fac. Why, would you be A gallant, and not game? 8 But never IN DIAMETER,] What Shakespear calls the lie direct; the others are the lie circumftantial. See As you Like it, act_5. fc. 6. where the feveral degrees are humorously recounted. The fame fubject is alluded to by Fletcher in words exactly similar to our author's: Has he given the lie "In circle or oblique, or femicircle, "Or direct parallel? you must challenge him." Queen of Corinth, alt 4. fc. 1. The ridicule upon this abfurdity of duelling, is finely maintained, as occafion prefented, by the great triumvirate of dramatick poets, Shakespear, Jonfon, and Fletcher. Fac. Fac. Spend you? it will repair you when you are spent: How do they live by their wits there, that have vented Six times your fortunes? Kaf. What, three thousand a year! Kaf. Are there fuch? Fac. I, fir. And gallants yet. Here's a young gentleman Fac. 'Ods my life! do you think it? You fhall have a caft commander, (can but get Kaf. Will the doctor teach this? Fac. Fac. He will do more, fir, when your land is gone, Hops, or tobacco, oat-meal, woad, or cheeses. Fac. Why, Nab here knows him. And then for making matches for rich widows, What he did tell me of Nab. It's a ftrange thing! And that fame melancholy breeds worms) but pafs it; He told me honeft Nab here was ne'er at tavern But once in's life! Dru. Truth, and no more I was not. Fac. And then he was fo fick Dru. Could he tell you that too? Fac. How fhould I know it? Dru. In troth we had been a fhooting, And had a piece of fat ram-mutton to fupper, That That lay fo heavy o' my ftomach Fac. And he has no head To bear any wine; for what with the noise o' the fidlers, And care of his fhop, for he dares keep no fervantsDru. My head did so ake Fac. As he was fain to be brought home, The doctor told me. And then a good old woman- Fac. I, that was with the grief Thou took'st for being cefs'd at eighteen-pence, Dru. In truth, and it was like T' have coft me almost my life. Fac. Thy hair went off? Dru. Yes, fir, 'twas done for fpight. [me, Kaf. Pray thee, tobacco-boy, go fetch my fufter, I'll fee this learned boy before I go: And so shall she. Fac. Sir, he is bufy now: But if you have a fifter to fetch hither, Perhaps your own pains may command her fooner; And he by that time will be free. Kaf. I go. Fac. Drugger, fhe's thine: the damask. (Subtle and I Muft wrestle for her.) Come on, mafter Dapper. You fee how I turn clients here away, 9 Fac. I, that was with the grief Thou took ft for being cess'd at eighteen-pence For the water-work,] The New-River begun in 1608 by Sir Hugh Middleton, and finished at a very great expence (about 500 thoufand pounds, in which he had the affiftance of King James I. the lordmayor, and commonalty of London) in the year 1613. See an account of the number of houfes (upplied by it at that time, in STOW's Annals, p. 938. Dr. GREY. To Ha' you perform'd To give your cause dispatch. The ceremonies were enjoin'd you? And the clean shirt. Fac. 'Tis well: that fhirt may do you More worship than you think.. Your aunt's a-fire, Dap. Yes, here are fix fcore Edward fhillings. Dap. And an old Harry's fovereign. Fac. Very good. Dap. And three James fhillings, and an Elizabeth Just twenty nobles. Fac. O, you are too juft. [groat, I would you had had the other noble in Maries 1. Fac. I, thofe fame Are beft of all. Where are they? Hark, the doctor. 10 Just twenty nobles. Fac. O, you are too juft. I would you had had the other noble in Maries.] If the reader will be at the pains to reckon this account, he will find mafter Dapper deferves the praise of juftice which Face gives him. Twenty nobles, at fix fhillings and eight-pence each, amount to the fum of fix pounds thirteen fhillings and four-pence, which fum the other pieces make. The Harry's fovereign was a half fovereign only, and valued at ten fhillings. Face wanted the other noble in Maries, because the money was coined in the feveral fucceffive reigns of Henry, Edward, Elizabeth, and James; fo that Mary's being left out made a chafm in the account. SCENE |